Gartner has acknowledged Microsoft as a Chief within the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Developer Companies, with Microsoft positioned furthest in “Completeness of Imaginative and prescient”.
Gartner defines the market as “cloud-hosted or containerized providers that allow improvement groups and enterprise customers who usually are not knowledge science specialists to make use of AI fashions through APIs, software program improvement kits (SDKs), or purposes.”
We’re proud to be acknowledged for our Azure AI Platform. On this submit, we’ll dig into the Gartner analysis, what it means for builders, and supply entry to the complete reprint of the Gartner Magic Quadrant to study extra.
Scale clever apps with production-ready AI
“Though ModelOps practices are maturing, most software program engineering groups nonetheless want AI capabilities that don’t demand superior machine studying expertise. For that reason, cloud AI developer providers (CAIDS) are important instruments for software program engineering groups.”—Gartner
A staggering 87 p.c of AI initiatives by no means make it into manufacturing.¹ Past the complexity of information preprocessing and constructing AI fashions, organizations wrestle with scalability, safety, governance, and extra to make their mannequin’s manufacturing prepared. That’s why over 85 p.c of Fortune 100 firms use Azure AI at this time, spanning industries and use instances.
An increasing number of, we see builders speed up time to worth through the use of pre-built and customizable AI fashions as constructing blocks for clever options. Microsoft Analysis has made important breakthroughs in AI through the years, being the primary to realize human parity throughout speech, imaginative and prescient, and language capabilities. At present, we’re pushing the boundaries of language mannequin capabilities with giant fashions like Turing, GPT-3, and Codex (the mannequin powering GitHub Copilot) to assist builders be extra productive. Azure AI packages these improvements into production-ready normal fashions often called Azure Cognitive Companies and use case-specific fashions, Azure Utilized AI Companies for builders to combine through API or an SDK, then proceed to high-quality tune for higher accuracy.
For builders and knowledge scientists trying to construct production-ready machine studying fashions at scale, we help automated machine studying also referred to as autoML. AutoML in Azure Machine Studying relies on breakthrough Microsoft analysis centered on automating the time-consuming, iterative duties of machine studying mannequin improvement. This frees up knowledge scientists, analysts, and builders to deal with value-add duties outdoors operations and speed up their time to manufacturing.
Allow productiveness for AI groups throughout the group
“As extra builders use CAIDS to construct machine studying fashions, the collaboration between builders and knowledge scientists will develop into more and more essential.”—Gartner
As AI turns into extra mainstream throughout organizations, it’s important that staff have the instruments they should collaborate, construct, handle, and deploy AI options successfully and responsibly. As Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella shared at Microsoft Construct, Microsoft is “constructing fashions as platforms in Azure” in order that builders with totally different expertise can reap the benefits of breakthrough AI analysis and embed them into their very own purposes. This ranges from skilled builders constructing clever apps with APIs and SDKs to citizen builders utilizing pre-built fashions through Microsoft Energy Platform.
Azure AI empowers builders to construct apps of their most popular language and deploy within the cloud, on-premises, or on the edge utilizing containers. Not too long ago we additionally introduced the potential to use any Kubernetes cluster and prolong machine studying to run near the place your knowledge lives. These assets will be run via a single pane with the administration, consistency, and reliability offered by Azure Arc.
Operationalize Accountable AI practices
“Distributors and clients alike are searching for extra than simply efficiency and accuracy from machine studying mannequin. When choosing AutoML providers, they need to prioritize distributors that excel at offering explainable, clear fashions with built-in bias detection and compensatory mechanisms.”—Gartner
At Microsoft, we apply our Accountable AI Customary to our product technique and improvement lifecycle, and we’ve made it a precedence to assist clients do the identical. We additionally present instruments and assets to assist clients perceive, shield, and management their AI options, together with a Accountable AI Dashboard, bot improvement pointers, and built-in instruments to assist them clarify mannequin conduct, check for equity, and extra. Offering a constant toolset to your knowledge science staff not solely helps accountable AI implementation but additionally helps present higher transparency and allows extra constant, environment friendly mannequin deployments.
Microsoft is proud to be acknowledged as a Chief in Cloud AI Developer Companies, and we’re excited by improvements taking place at Microsoft and throughout the business that empower builders to sort out real-world challenges with AI. You may learn and study from the full Gartner Magic Quadrant now.
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¹Why do 87 p.c of information science initiatives by no means make it into manufacturing? Enterprise Beat.
Gartner Inc.: “Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Companies,” Van Baker, Svetlana Sicular, Erick Brethenoux, Arun Batchu, Mike Fang, Might 23, 2022.
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